Cisco Certified Expert Network Consultants

Data centers are the key to leveraging IT assets to maximize the competitive value of an information system. For small businesses, data centers have typically evolved in a haphazard fashion, creating a state where processors and storage devices are deployed inefficiently, usable communications bandwidth is wasted, teamwork and information sharing is minimal, maintenance demands are excessive, expansion or reconfiguring is expensive, protection is patchy, seemingly simple changes turn into major hassles, and complete recovery from disastrous breakdowns becomes almost undoable.

Cisco's latest connectivity products and technologies enable a new generation of data center architecture that allows continual improvements in server, storage, connectivity topology, and application technologies in a maintainable and economical way. Progent's consultants can help you to identify and deploy Cisco's network products to build a robust foundation for your data center and to streamline your data center operations in critical areas including:

• Processor and storage utilization
• Comprehensive security policy enforcement
• Processor consolidation
• Regulatory compliance
• Disaster recovery

The key benefits that can be realized as a result of using Progent's Cisco-certified experts to streamline your data center include:

• Reduced total cost of ownership: allows IT to substantially reduce capital expenses through integration and more efficient use of previously separate network resources, slash operational costs through simplifying and automating management jobs, and cut HVAC and power bills.
• More Business Flexibility: enables IT management to respond quickly to changing business conditions by facilitating fast deployment of application and infrastructure services from common pools of consolidated processor, disk, and connectivity resources. This helps streamline administrative procedures and enable policy-based control.
• Better Network Robustness: enables IT to defend against disruptions or intrusions by safeguarding connections, applications, and information through the highest levels of availability, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
• Optimized Service Levels: enables IT management to optimize business service levels by providing secure, accelerated connectivity to data center-resident applications and data from any place and at any time across the enterprise.

• Building effective firewall protection solutions powered by PIX and ASA firewall products
• Installing and troubleshooting protected Virtual Private Network connections for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile users
• Planning, and implementing resilient zero-downtime LAN and Internet connectivity architectures so that single component breakdowns do not disrupt availability of services
• Setting up multiple Internet providers with seamless transfer based on BGP protocols. Progent can help clients along the complete path of paperwork with Internet authorities, getting Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allocated, dealing with ISPs to prepare their environments, and configuring and testing customer equipment.
• Implementing segmented and protected VLAN environments to compliment VMware and Microsoft virtual server systems
• Architecting, deploying and helping clients to administer 24x7 IPS systems so that assaults can be identified rapidly and defeated so they don't impact your business
• Planning, configuring, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Working with clients, Progent can match expressed requirements to the best solutions and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. These designs permit transparent and convenient expansion, dependability, security, and redundancy.
• Progent knows how to design practical network management strategies using SNMP and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and CiscoWorks and a variety of 3rd party products that allow customers a powerful real-time view into the operation of their data center's network
• Setting up and troubleshooting high-end data center capable infrastructure appliances such as the Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switches, Nexus 6000 and 7000 Series switches, and Cisco 7200 and 7600 routers.

To learn additional information about Progent's consulting help for Cisco networking products, choose a subject:

• Introduction to Progent's Cisco Expertise
• Fast Online Support from a Cisco CCIE Engineer
• Cisco Firepower Series Firewalls: Integration and Troubleshooting Expertise
• Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Firewall with Firepower Services: Configuration and Management Services
• Cisco ASA 5500 Series Firewall Integration Assistance
• Cisco PIX Firewall Engineering Support
• Cisco Routers Consulting Support
• Cisco Wireless Deployment Services
• Aironet APs Engineering Services
• Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 WiFi APs Consulting Help
• Cisco Catalyst 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6/6E Wireless APs Solution Design, Configuration and Troubleshooting Consulting
• Cisco WiFi Controllers Support Services
• Meraki Access Points Engineering Support
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and CallManager Consulting and Technical Support
• Cisco Voice over IP Phones and IP Video Phones Consulting and Wireless VoIP Phone Integration
• Cisco Jabber Integration Services
• Catalyst Switches Engineering Services
• Cisco Nexus Switches Configuration and Maintenance Services
• Cisco Meraki Switches Deployment Expertise
• Cisco VPN Integration Support
• SIP and CUBE Integration Solutions: SIP Trunking and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
• Cisco Duo MFA Two-factor Authentication Services for Teleworkers
• Network Optimization Services for ISPs
• Unified Cloud-based and Hybrid Network Management Solutions for Cisco-powered Environments

In order to ask Progent about professional support for Cisco technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.